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Do you ever feel that everything political is futile?
From a citizen's standpoint.
Do you ever feel that everything political is futile?
From a citizen's standpoint.
Yeah, i mean, 200+ years after separation of church and state and we're still getting garbage like this:
Tennessee House votes Bible as official state book
Politics is the self serving art of doing nothing while pretending to accomplish everything. That pretty much makes democracy futile
Yeah, i mean, 200+ years after separation of church and state and we're still getting garbage like this:
Tennessee House votes Bible as official state book
Politics is the self serving art of doing nothing while pretending to accomplish everything. That pretty much makes democracy futile
Yes, and in a state with 5th worst unemployment rate in the country.
absolutely.... that's why I use politics as a form of entertainment now.... it is very much futile, no doubt about it.
if folks take it serious , they only set themselves up for frustration and bitterness.
Do you ever feel that everything political is futile?
From a citizen's standpoint.
Nope. Over the long run we've moved in the right direction. There's set backs, but the world is getting freer, healthier, safer, wealthier and more unified every darn day.Do you ever feel that everything political is futile?
From a citizen's standpoint.
Do you ever feel that everything political is futile?
From a citizen's standpoint.
what does employment have to do with an official state book??
If politics only serves as entertainment, that is a damn expensive ticket. Think of all we could save by just dismantling the US senate and various state governments
A TN legislator makes $34,390 for 90 days of work a year, total of $4.6 million, to accomplish what, declare the bible the state book? Who wouldn't take a job like that! They believe in public service like the mafia believes in giving out free security
Yes, and in a state with 5th worst unemployment rate in the country.
It's just yet another example of how Republicans always pursue a socially conservative agenda before all others and blow all their time and political capital in doing so rather than actually addressing issue that actually impact people. One would think if your state has had stubbornly poor economic performance, despite the fact its tax and fiscal policies are even more conservative than Texas', then you would be "focused like a laser on job creation" rather than dragging the state a little closer to a theocracy. I doubt any business looking to relocate gives a **** whether a prospective state has the Bible as its official book or not.
Do you ever feel that everything political is futile?
From a citizen's standpoint.
Interesting, then how do you explain California is worse than Tennessee when it comes to unemployment?
I totally agree. I have friends that vote democrat few years back and then GOP in the next election and then vice versa again and then complain about why the country is doing terrible. Its like they never learn. :roll:I get so disillusioned with the same people getting elected. I do. Then people complain that nothing is being done. Sometimes I think that if people would stop voting incumbent, and get fresh faces in, at least we'd have a few good years of "let's help the people while I am still an idealist, and before the money starts changing me." Then once they turn, vote them out and every few years, get new people in. The ones who are the most easily corruptible have absolutely no term limits. They can get in, and stay in, because most people who vote just walk into the booth without having picked up a paper, watched a debate or anything else.
Unfortunately, most people sleep their way to, and through, the polls, and then go home and wonder why everything is as bad as it is.
A lot of reasons, however it also lead the nation in job creation last year.
Moreover, the three worst states for unemployment are Mississippi, Louisiana, and Nevada, all states under Republican control. How do you explain that?
Personally, my contention is that unless you have a lot of oil you are sitting on, the biggest economic drivers for a state is not tax policy but rather quality of life. The higher the quality of life a state enjoys, the more good jobs it attracts and the more educated workers it attracts.
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